But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.